What takes an artist to be nominated at the prestigious National Artist? What does it take to win the award? Who will be the next set of National Artists in various fields in 2025? How are artist-nominees selected? These are just few of the questions posed concerning and covering any qualified and deserving future National Artists? In an almost jampacked …
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After eleven long years of romance, on and offstage, Kathryn Bernardo and Daniel Padilla are officially separated. This was confirmed by Kathryn herself. A brave Bernardo said that the split was caused by their stormy relationship. In her Instagram posts, though, Kathryn said that her love for DJ, Daniel’s pet name which means Daniel John, was unsurmountable. Half of her …
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My film director Bon Labora–visual artist, naturalist, polymath, environmentalist, culture advocate, teacher etc.–and I were at the Xentro Mall in Tumauini, Isabela on an early Monday morning last week. We had an audition for the roles of three young daughters of a healer mother who lives in the boondocks. Our film, a collaboration between Agos Media and BVV8 Media Productions …
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In spite of the many award givers in the Philippines from practically all fields, awards on films are still the most awaited, intriguing and mind-boggling of them all. It is because the nominees and winners themselves, especially the major ones, in movie awards derby made popular by the dominant star system or each of them owns up horde of fans …
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Filmmaking in the post-modern world is a complex affair. Societies in all parts of the globe are getting more complicated and the quotidian onscreen is also as diverse that brings out the multiverse. Simplicity is beauty, we are told. There is beauty as well in the complications, off and especially on-screen that makes illusions more realistic. Linear filmmaking, though, is …
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It was on an early Thursday morning, November 16, 2023 that entertainment writer Obette Serano sent me a message about 1975 Mutya ng Pilipinas Miss Photogenic and actress Azenith Briones. On a visual page on Facebook Messenger was splashed replicated photos of Azenith with a lady Voice Over: “Your attention, please! This is very important.” At the bottom of the …
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Ayala Foundation and Ayala Museum together with Avida present “Isang Dekada ng Musika,” a two-part special concert series celebrating the 10th anniversary of the museum’s concert program on November 16 and 23, 2023. “The 10th Anniversary Concert: The Best of Rush Hour,” on November 16 will feature the most popular songs from the Manila Symphony Orchestra’s (MSO) performances. The Rush …
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It’s her political comeback with a vengeance. Or a return in a long period of time to show business as a mother of a young star. That’s how most people have described model-actress Tina Monasterio when she ran anew and won hands down as Chairman of Barangay Duyan-Duyan in Project 3 in Quezon City in yesterday’s barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan …
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Could it be true that not all secrets in Francis Magalona’s life weren’t buried with him to his grave? Could it also be truer that a group of nosey movie press was ready to uncover him even when he was still alive after they found out that he had an illicit love affair but his wife Pia Arroyo-Magalona allegedly got …
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How could films of a National Artist for Film and Broadcast Arts be snubbed by the 2023 Metro Manila Film Festival? More than that, how could the so-called Queen of MMFF for her consistent box-office hits and ubiquitous presence in the past in the same fest be set aside by its current Selection Committee? To think that the producers of …
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